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Almaty Pass. This is the border between Kazakhstan and Krygzystan. The cairn is said to have been built in the 1390s by soldiers of Tamerlane (Timur the Lame) as they crossed the pass from their winter quarters by the mild Lake Ysyk-Kol. When they returned after a summer’s campaign in the plains each surviving soldier picked up a stone; those remaining are a memorial to the fallen. Kazakhstan. Kunggoy Ala Too Mountains. South of Almaty. July 2002.
 as they crossed the pass from their winter quarters by the mild Lake Ysyk-Kol. When they returned after a summer’s campaign in the plains each surviving soldier picked up a stone; those remaining are a memorial to the fallen. Kazakhstan. Kunggoy Ala Too Mountains. South of Almaty. July 2002.){kind=link}